Breaking News

Teen Arrested After Greeting Police With butcher's Knife and Mother's Severed Head

An
18-year-old teenager in North Carolina was arrested on Monday after
decapitating his mother and then calling police, authorities say.

Badge and gun of North Carolina police

Oliver
Funez walked out of the house carrying a butcher's knife in one hand
and his mother's severed head in the other as police arrived, reports
said.

Police
said that Funez called police to the house just east of Zebulon, North
Carolina around 1pm on Monday. When police arrived, officers said he
placed the head on the ground and was arrested.

A
sherriff said it was "a gruesome scene" to local news site, WRAL.com.
Two children were thought to be in the home at the time of the incident
but neither was injured, another son was at school at the time.

A
neighbour told the news site that he passed by the scene later and
could not forget the look he saw on one police officer's face: "He just
looked like he was just blown away. I mean, he was just in terror, he
was so upset."

Funez
has been charged with first-degree murder and could appear in court as
quickly as Tuesday, ABC 11 reported.

Officers told reporters that they
could not say how many times Funez's mother, 35-year-old Yesenia Funez
Beatriz Machado, had been stabbed.

Another neighbour said that they saw Machado's husband arrive at the
scene, saying "we just heard him crying and you could hear him all over
the place."

Teen Arrested After Greeting Police With butcher's Knife and Mother's Severed Head
Reviewed by newsrepublique media
on
March 08, 2017
Rating: 5